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Why is the duplicate close banner strange on this question? [duplicate]
This question looks like this right now:
Notably, the place where the duplicate questions are usually listed is empty (leading to a rather awkward "This question already has answers here:" ...
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What should I do when I encounter a user who reasks an identical question when their question is closed? [duplicate]
A user asked a question Weird behaviour from European Central Bank API and it was closed as not appropriate for the site (missing debug details). That user then immediately asked the same question ...
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Are multiple close reasons provided if a question was single-handedly closed?
I came across the following post and revisions:
command won't add roles to the user
https://stackoverflow.com/posts/77107942/revisions
It was closed by two users, one with the ability to single-...
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What is a beginner-oriented canonical Q&A and how can it help me curate my watched tags?
This is intended to be a light satire to assist would-be site curators who find that the tags they're most interested in are flooded with low-quality questions, but who either misuse What is a ...
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How can I edit/update an empty duplicate dialog box? [duplicate]
I wanted to change the duplicate target for
Why is decimal multiplication slightly inaccurate?
to
Is floating point math broken?
But the dialog does not have the "edit:" link that they ...
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After 6 years, a question was closed as a duplicate in favor of a lower-scored question. Should it be the other way around?
Question being closed: Reading file using relative path in python project
Has a score of 124.
Has an accepted answer with a score of 205.
Has next answers with a total score of 56
Yet after 6 years ...
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Question closed within a few minutes [duplicate]
I've just posted this question. Within minutes, it was closed, no explanation given, with just a link to another question.
I'm not sure this is a good policy.
There's no explanation of why someone ...
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Someone else's question is incorrectly closed as a duplicate, but I don't have enough reputation to vote to reopen
I came across How to test private members and methods of classes? which is tagged c++. It was closed about 4 years ago as a duplicate of How do I test a class that has private methods, fields or inner ...
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Would it be better to provide an explanation when closing questions as duplicates? [duplicate]
My question is closed as a duplicate, with no explanation. The linked answers did not help me solve the problem.
In my experience, too many questions are simply dismissed as duplicates. In this case, ...
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Was my question correctly closed as a duplicate?
My question: GCC/CC unable to compile C project with multiple files (mac os)
The question appeared to be quite specific but in the end I was just invoking gcc incorrectly. It got a correct answer in a ...
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Is there a way exclude duplicates and closed questions in the question view?
On the c tag, there are more and more questions that are closed as duplicates or otherwise. I did not find a way to create a custom filter to remove these from the question view.
Did I miss something ...
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New question downvoted and closed but simpler wording and better performance than duplicates [closed]
I posted the question More efficient list of all files in a directory in PHP, sorted by modifiation time?
I see now, that it is nearly a duplicate of Sort function works wrong with filemtime PHP, How ...
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Email notification about a question getting closed (as duplicate) is confusing
Following this question, I decided to post this one.
This is part of the email notification you'll get if a question of yours is closed (as a duplicate):
This question may be a duplicate. It is ...
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Is this an example of a hostile moderation?
After a long time, I have added a question on Stack Overflow thinking of receiving some help. I spent quite some time trying to make my question shorter and to the point. I added relevant link and ...
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Again, stop users from repeating their closed question
I will repeat myself again1 as a feature request because it's very annoying to see that the effort we are doing is completely useless.
You close a question as duplicate
The user doesn't even bother ...
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